Principal Solutions Architect

Sopra Steria
SSCL Defence are on the look out for experienced Senior Solutions Architects to join their established AMO (Architectural Management Office) Team
As our new Senior Solutions Architect, you will be the go-to technical lead, decision making, concepts, spanning across design, build, test and the deployment process. Working with various stakeholders and workstream leads within the programme and project you will be responsible for all design and maintenance of the system architecture and technical issues resolution.

This is a Hybrid working role, where you can be based anywhere in the UK, there will be occasional travel to one of the UK SSCL sites.

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist in the provision of solution architecture, generation of conceptual, logical and physical architecture documents, short time-frame change impact assessments, feasibility studies & costed IT proposals for a project/program
• Contribute to estimation of activities for the planning and risk assessments.
• Understand, identify, manage and co-ordinate the technical activities amongst the technical workstreams – providing input into what the tech activities are, the order they are done along with identifying dependencies – SPOC for all technical issues and its resolution.
• Identifying and resolving impacts of changes to the technical architecture
• Be a point of reference for the project on all Technical Architecture matters.
• Reporting and escalating as appropriate to the project manager on progress against plan, conflicts, and technical issues resolution

What you’ll bring:

• Previous Solution/Technical Architect experience
• Experience of cloud hosting and implementation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Experience in Network design and implementation
• CI/CD design and deployment experience
• Experience of Firewall and WAF design and implementation
• Experience in Active Directory, Identity Management / Privileged Access Management design and implementation
• Exposure to business critical, high availability design and deployment
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to write clear documentation
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to all stakeholders

It would be great if you had:

• Cloud hosting providers include Azure
• Understanding of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS services and integration
• MOD design and deployment
• Terraform and Ansible experience
• OIC technical experience
• API management and design
• Protective and system monitoring experience
• Awareness of Cyber Security requirements for Infrastructure solutions
• SC Clearance

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: UK Anywhere with occasional travel to SSCL Centres of Excellence
Security Clearance Level: SC – Active or Eligible
Internal Recruiter: Carolyne
Salary: £95,000
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (couple), life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?
SSCL is the market leader in critical business support services for the UK public sector. Operating at size and scale since 2013, SSCL has delivered over £750 million of savings – providing more funds for front line public services. We transform services using digital solutions and innovative technology, developing platforms that enable flexibility to meet the changing needs of our Government, Defence and Police clients.
We employ around 3,000 people who sit at the heart of our business strategy. Their passion and connection to our values and our purpose is what sets us apart and puts SSCL in the Top 20 of GPTW large workplaces. ‘Living SSCL’ means we deliver social value within our services and work with our clients and community partners to support programmes such as education and employability initiatives across the UK.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK’s largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.